Kogi State Governor, Idris Wada this morning declared 3 days of mourning in honour of the late governorship candidate and former governor of the state, Prince Abubakar Audu. Capt. Wada described Prince Abubakar Audu as a great Kogite, a great Nigerian, one who has contributed immensely to the socio-economic and political development of Kogi State. […]
Continue ReadingA legal practitioner, Festus Keyamo, says with the death of Abubakar Audu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Kogi state governorship election, Abiodun Faleke, his running mate should be given the ticket of the party. The legal implication of Audu’s death on the election has been interpreted in different ways, with Olisa […]
Continue ReadingThe Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has condemned the compulsory retirement of 14 Permanent Secretaries in the Civil Service of the Rivers State Government by Gov. Nyesom Wike describing it as an ‘act conceived and executed in bad faith to punish people, relations or spouses of those perceived to have worked for […]
Continue ReadingKogi gubernatorial election slated for today (Saturday) is underway, there are 21 candidates and their political parties vying to take over power in the state. Below is a list of all the candidates. The governorship candidates and their political parties are as follows: Isah Yakubu Kamaldeen, AA Dickson F. Fred, Accord Ukenya Musa, ACD Michael […]
Continue ReadingTragedy struck as nine persons died on Friday in Asaba, Delta state, when a Dangote truck laden with cement ran over a bus with 18 passengers. The accident occurred on the Benin-Asaba highway. The sector commander of Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Delta State, Mr Rindom Kumven, said the speeding truck coming from Benin, crushed three other […]
Continue ReadingNot less than 27 persons were reported killed on Friday after Malian commandos stormed a luxury hotel in the capital Bamako with at least 170 people inside, many of them foreigners. Jihadist group Al Mourabitoun, allied to al Qaeda and based in the deserts of northern Mali, has claimed responsibility for the attack in a […]
Continue ReadingThe Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State, on Thursday raised alarm over an alleged plot by Governor Rauf Aregbesola, to deploy 15,000 persons to Kogi State with the intent of rigging the elections. A statement on Thursday by the party’s spokesperson, Diran Odeyemi, 15,000 APC members from Osun State had been mobilized and would […]
Continue ReadingFollowing the meeting of the governors of the 36 states of the federation, where they said they would no longer be able to pay the N18,000 national minimum wage due to dwindling oil revenue, workers have raised objection, saying they are ready to shut down the country should the governors maintain their stand. The the […]
Continue ReadingInformation coming from the office of the Honourable Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has revealed that the present Administration will soon launch a campaign of National Re-orientation aimed at transforming the nation’s socio-political economic landscape. Alhaji Lai Mohammed made this public on Thursday (yesterday), when the Executive Governor of Kaduna State, Malam […]
Continue ReadingLucara, a Canadian company, has revealed that the world’s second-largest gem-quality diamond has just been discovered in Botswana.Lucara’s Chief Executive Officer, William Lamb, in a statement, mentioned that the 1,111-carat diamond is second in size only to the 3,106-carat one excavated at Cullinan mine in South Africa in 1905, which was cut into British crown […]
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